Kristen Martin
AD100
T-TH 1:00PM-3:40PM
Eyeo
2012 Response
2012 Response
At the Eyeo2012 Festival, the
Presenter Casey Reas, talks about the
role of chance in art from past paintings like Piet Mondrian’s Composition of Yellow, Blue and Red to
current modern day works like Reas’s collaboration project called Signal. A project that was super
inspiring was Signal which was a
biomedical visualization project using
information from IIT labs. These breathtaking larger than life wall decals show
the way proteins communicate back and forth. They also display positive and
negative signals within a cancer cell. Using chance, Casey edited the scale,
and angle position. Another installation project of Casey Reas, that was
interesting was a commission for the Frank Gehry New World Symphony in Miami
called Chronograph. This mural was
projected on the façade of the concert hall and it combined the history of
music with art deco neighborhood. Using chance, Reas created over 400
compositions that was eventually edited
down to 365. Reas states “…each image was based off one image of a building..” and the chance operation controlled rotation of the image with in the main image.
I thought it was interesting halfway through the lecture Reas stressed how much
of Dada art expressed the replacing of
order and making your own reality from chance operation.
Presenter Casey Reas, talks about the
role of chance in art from past paintings like Piet Mondrian’s Composition of Yellow, Blue and Red to
current modern day works like Reas’s collaboration project called Signal. A project that was super
inspiring was Signal which was a
biomedical visualization project using
information from IIT labs. These breathtaking larger than life wall decals show
the way proteins communicate back and forth. They also display positive and
negative signals within a cancer cell. Using chance, Casey edited the scale,
and angle position. Another installation project of Casey Reas, that was
interesting was a commission for the Frank Gehry New World Symphony in Miami
called Chronograph. This mural was
projected on the façade of the concert hall and it combined the history of
music with art deco neighborhood. Using chance, Reas created over 400
compositions that was eventually edited
down to 365. Reas states “…each image was based off one image of a building..” and the chance operation controlled rotation of the image with in the main image.
I thought it was interesting halfway through the lecture Reas stressed how much
of Dada art expressed the replacing of
order and making your own reality from chance operation.